When geography and environmental science students go into the bush as objective scientific observers, they are learning important skills in scientific methodology — but they are outside looking in. (teachermagazine.com.au)
Any time a highly trained scientific observer, speaking within his or her particular area of expertise, announces a jaw - dropping breakthrough, you might want to pay attention. (niftypawspress.com)
In the former the knower can not be merely a detached scientific observer but must also himself participate, for it is through his participation that he discovers both the typical and the unique in the aspects of human life that he is studying. (religion-online.org)